Describing the shape and color of the bulb will help. What are the children shaped like? Look at the bulb carefully and describe it like you were writing and essay and wanted the class to guess what you were writing about. Some bulbs have an onion like skin. Tulips have a darker skin than a daffodil so you could say It is shaped similar to a medium large onion with a greenish skin and thick opening with brown dead wide stalks or stems where leaf petals will grow. Oh, this might be amarylis would be my thought. Or a lily would be many white petals or scales on the bulbs and so forth. TOO MANY BULBS NOT TO HAVE AN IN DEPTH DESCRIPTION.

Thank you so much. I was afraid nobody would help in time. I'll get to it right away. They are already showing a little wilt on the bottommost leaves. I searched and searched for root propagation methods, read one where you cut two slits, read how growers use rhizopon AA for more blooms when transplanting, was going to run to the nursery, they may not have it, and we want bushes and worry about the blooms later. So I'll just do as you suggest and hope for the best. I'll try to bury them about the same level they grew. I don't think you want to put them way deep in the pot, nor too shallow either. I did a lot of reading and searching last night, and it seems fall is the best time for transplanting roses/suckers, but I think early spring should be ok, too. I would, in time like to find out the best way to do root propagation like the old rose searchers I've read about did. It sounds easier than cuttings if it works except I fear most property owners would be more reluctant to let you dig around a rose rather than just take some cuttings.

by the way, when I dug up my bananas, the red leaf zebrinas are the hardest ones to dig. They are much worse than any of the others. I don't know why. The easiest ones to dig were the dwarf cavendish, even the biggest ones popped right out without much trouble. I'd say it's "Miller time" now! Good job! Sandy

Below are the elephant ear bulbs I dug up yesterday. The common green variety, Colocasia Escuelenta. This was 1 bulb when I planted it in June. Now it’s 3 in a line. It was not a big bulb, maybe 2” in diameter. The kind that come 3 to a bag. I had started it in a pot in the house around April, and moved the pot outside in late May. Then an animal ate the sprout off the top, and it began to make sprouts on the sides, and I planted it in the ground in early June. This performed so well compared to the one I planted in a pot, that I decided to see if I could keep it over the winter, and thus get a bigger plant next year. I had reviewed prior threads on how to store them. I have a cooler closet in the basement where I keep my tuberous begonias. The second bulb that I planted shows a new bulb growing on top of what appears to be the original shrunken bulb. That is what glads do, as I recall. But now, looking at this, I am not clear about what to do. I had read on here that the parent makes pups. But even the central bulb of the "3 in a line" is no bigger than what I planted. I was expecting to see a stem that could be snapped off before storage. I don’t see anything here that can be removed, unless it will look different after it dries awhile in the house. I probably waited too long to dig it up. Too many garden tasks in the fall! The top of this is as it was cut off. The leafy top got frosted a couple of weeks ago, and the leaves were cut off about an inch above the ground. So that part was exposed. It is soft. The base is firm. On the first photo it is sending out some kind of side shoot (also firm) that could have been a new leaf forming: it looks like a kind of reddish asparagus spear or sweet potato pointing to the lower left. So what do I do now? Trim off the soft parts? Wait for it to dry a bit? Thanks for your help.